The Begining of the End?

I woke up Saturday morning around 6 am and drove to Colfax where I went back to bed for a few more hours. I allowed Amber to share my bed to see how good she will sleep with people. She did really well. My alarm woke me up and I got ready for the softball tournament.

The writing may be on the wall for me and my days with My Office Softball may be numbered. I do not want to go back to being a bench player. I have been with the team long enough to have earned a routine starting position. This year I really wasn't a full time starter. We picked up one guy named Chris. He pitched a bunch of games where I would either catch or sit on the bench those games. Last year I was very frustrated with the lack of play time. I was at every single game last year yet, I had half the at bats that some of the other people had. I love this game too much to not get to play that often.

Dan has been playing on the team for a few years and was always the starting 1st baseman. I love to play first as well as pitch. I had a chance to play first base. But I think that is because that was the only place to put me and Heather or Jason would pitch. Jason has been on the side lines all season injured. He was the main pitcher from last season.

After the game against Tax Dodgers, I think that sealed my fate. I think that Jason is planning on pitching on Tuesday, which would mean I will either catch, or sit the bench. Either of which are not very good options for me. I need to go out there and pitch to the Tax Dodgers and prove I can do it. I don't think that I will have that opportunity however. There is a chance I will pitch, if Jason is spending time with his baby daughter who was born on Sunday morning. If he is not there at all, and I am the only option for pitching, then that wont prove anything to me. I need to see Jason there, and I need to be pitching. But I don't think that will happen. If it does not happen that way, I see myself shopping for a new team, or maybe trying to build one.

This weekend's Co-Ed end of the season tournament has been going well for me, however. Playing first base I have been making plays and my bat is on fire right now. It took all season, but it is looking good.

One thing that happened this Saturday which pissed me off royally was when I had finished making a force out at first base. There was a runner at 3rd who was starting to move off the base. I lift the ball up, so the runner could see it, and started to cock my arm, to make them head back to 3rd base. While doing so, Garrett yell "DON'T THROW IT!" I could not believe he did that. At what point did he believe that I was so stupid that he would have to say that to me? The runner was on his way back to 3rd and I underhand tossed the ball to Jason who was pitching. I turned back to head to my base saying out loud that I wasn't going to throw it, and I told Garrett to relax. Right now I am so pissed I can't see myself having someone on the Intramural team who do that. Part of me wants to invite him to find a new team for this season.

After the game, I headed back to my house to sleep. I had to be up for working graveyard at the jail. 11:30 pm rolls around fast when you seem to see every hour on the clock from the time you go to bed to the time you have to get up. I do recall seeing it being 7, 8, 9, and 10 o'clock. Grrr. Not a good way to start the night.